CFP: (dis)junctions: Confession (grad) (1/7/05; 4/8/05-4/9/05)

(dis)junctions: theory reloaded (april 8-9, 2005)

theories of the confessional

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions:
theory reloaded at the University of California, Riverside's 12th Annual
Humanities Graduate Conference on April 8-9, 2005.

Contributors are invited to submit papers concerning the various cultural
institutions, spaces, practices, and rhetorics implied in the discussion of
confession. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Religious institutions and rituals
- Legal and courtroom practices
- Literary genres of confession
- Ethics of confessional exchange
- First-person literature, autobiography, personal narrative, or memoir
- Rhetorics of guilt and/or innocence
- Deathbed scenes in literature, film, or visual arts
- Confessional space and the anonymous audience
- History of confession as a practice or art form

All disciplines are welcome. Abstracts of approximately 250 words should be
emailed to eweeks81_at_hotmail.com by January 7, 2005 (text in the body of the
message; please no attachments).

For more information on the conference, please visit:
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/

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